Fodderingham For The Replay

[originaltrueblade]

I hope Hecky plays Fodderingham in the replay it’s important that we play him as Davis was not up to it. Fodders gives confidence to the defence.

So bloody frustrating watching Davis yesterday needs to be offloaded when out of contract at the end of the season. When he parried the ball into their players the air was full of obscenities

 

[Rodley]

Double DD, the only way to be.

 

[jt64]

This would be the same Davies who was at fault for zero of their goals yesterday?

 

[Bladesince59]

I hope Hecky plays Fodderingham in the replay it’s important that we play him as Davis was not up to it. Fodders gives confidence to the defence.

So bloody frustrating watching Davis yesterday needs to be offloaded when out of contract at the end of the season. When he parried the ball into their players the air was full of obscenities

I am with you. He was a complete bomb scare - parrying when he could easily catch the bloody thing.

 

[Karaoke Blade]

I remember some people crying out that Wes wasn't up to scratch when he first played. Davies wasn't great yesterday but lets not overreact based on one game.

 

[Scarebus]

This would be the same Davies who was at fault for zero of their goals yesterday?

All 3 went past him, so I guess every goal is the goalkeepers fault in some way.

 

[jt64]

I am with you. He was a complete bomb scare - parrying when he could easily catch the bloody thing.

Let me point you in the general direction of the recent Arsenal v Man U game, particularly United's second goal, which explains the downside of trying to "easily catch the bloody thing" rather than clearing it

 

[blade67]

I hope Hecky plays Fodderingham in the replay it’s important that we play him as Davis was not up to it. Fodders gives confidence to the defence.

So bloody frustrating watching Davis yesterday needs to be offloaded when out of contract at the end of the season. When he parried the ball into their players the air was full of obscenities

I'd say the opposite. Davies needs minutes where possible on the evidence of yesterday. Save Fodders for the league

 

[bakeblade]

I'd say the opposite. Davies needs minutes where possible on the evidence of yesterday. Save Fodders for the league

Definitely he stays in for cup games

 

[Need4speed]

I would look at Ben Woodbury if we get promoted. Could not get enough first team action at Newcastle and moved to Preston He is a good age for a keeper and better than the Championship

 

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

Play Davies.

 

[Lucky1979]

This would be the same Davies who was at fault for zero of their goals yesterday?

Poor positioning for 2 of them and the 3rd was right at him and went under him. So, yes. Worth noting his indecisiveness and dithering could have cost us more (not coming for crosses etc) especially that parry straight back at their players.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

We're not winning the FA Cup.
The more important thing is to keep a harmonious, upbeat squad for the run-in.
Give Davies the game. It's not easy being a reserve goalkeeper.
Davies isn't that bad.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I say play him again for the replay.
Yes, his confidence has been knocked, but he needs to play again to learn, improve and rebuild his confidence.

 

[jt64]

Poor positioning for 2 of them and the 3rd was right at him and went under him. So, yes. Worth noting his indecisiveness and dithering could have cost us more (not coming for crosses etc) especially that parry straight back at their players.

First was deflected, second was down to Sharp not putting in a decent clearance, third was down to Egan being massively out of position, leaving Mullin completely unmarked. I'm not Davies' biggest fan, and if you want to argue he wasn't great throughout the rest of the game, that's fair, but putting the goals on him is pretty harsh.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Hopefully we get shot at end of season he’s out of contract. Be madness having him as backup in the Premier.
My Bengal cat is better in the air than him.. his performance yesterday wasn’t bad it was PISS POOR

 

[Snowflake]

Hopefully we get shot at end of season he’s out of contract. Be madness having him as backup in the Premier.
My Bengal cat is better in the air than him.. his performance yesterday wasn’t bad it was PISS POOR

With a transfer embargo, how do we get a replacement ?

 

[originaltrueblade]

With a transfer embargo, how do we get a replacement ?

Well hopefully by the end of the season shouldn’t be affected as we have 30 days to sort the embargo from when it was put in place BUT the clock is ticking

 

[CrookesBlade]

Davies is clearly short of match practice and the confidence that brings. 2 he flapped at in the first half were fouls on him but he should have taken the ball and wiped Mullin out on both occasions.

Thinking back I can’t recall a reliable back up GK since Ian Bennett. Simon Moore did ok when called on but always looked a bit rusty. People will write Davies off as “not up to it” but realistically clubs wouldn’t keep on employing him if he didn’t have the attributes to make him a competent goal keeper.

If we signed another reserve keeper we’d still have the same issue when called upon.

Back when Simon Tracey and Alan Kelly were battling for the position we had reserve team football to keep the reserve keeper sharp

 

[Davalon]

We may not have seen the best of Davies but he's a decent keeper from what I've witnessed in the past.

For a club in our current position, he's a good number 2 to have.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

First was deflected, second was down to Sharp not putting in a decent clearance, third was down to Egan being massively out of position, leaving Mullin completely unmarked. I'm not Davies' biggest fan, and if you want to argue he wasn't great throughout the rest of the game, that's fair, but putting the goals on him is pretty harsh.

Third went through his legs.

 

[jt64]

Third went through his legs.

I'll just get on the phone to our keeper coach and have him tell our keepers to make themselves as small as possible when defending one on ones, I'm sure that'll work well

 

[100% part time blade]

First was deflected, second was down to Sharp not putting in a decent clearance, third was down to Egan being massively out of position, leaving Mullin completely unmarked. I'm not Davies' biggest fan, and if you want to argue he wasn't great throughout the rest of the game, that's fair, but putting the goals on him is pretty harsh.

I think Ndiaye was at fault for the third. Not that it matters. It wasn’t really Davies’s fault.
Wes is better than Davies, which is surely obvious, because Wes is first choice keeper. But he may still play Davies as we need a confident, sharp, match-ready keeper in case anything happens to Wes in the promotion run-in. Davies is surely only going to get sharper if he gets more games, and a 4th round replay at home against Wrexham is one of the few games he could reasonably expect to get game-time now.

 

[Benitachel]

This would be the same Davies who was at fault for zero of their goals yesterday?

You really were not watching the game.

 

[oldblade]

We're not winning the FA Cup.
The more important thing is to keep a harmonious, upbeat squad for the run-in.
Give Davies the game. It's not easy being a reserve goalkeeper.
Davies isn't that bad.

And he did save a penalty late in the league game against Norwich which rescued a point.

 

[Sneinton Blade 1952]

Agree with giving Davies game time in the FA Cup. Iliman and Anel were both poor yesterday. Who's suggesting get rid of them? Give Davies a break.

 

[bladesmanluke]

Think it's more important he has chance to play himself back into a bit of confidence. He's no use to us if we drop him and shatter his confidence even more, he might be needed in the run in

 

[SB_90]

Davies is good, made a brilliant penalty save v Norwich. but there too much at stake to not put the strongest team out.

this is no different to a derby. & as much i like the 2 ryans, i think there 2 of the best overseas owners. i really want to pop their balloon

 

[Sheffsteel]

Think it would be a terrible management decision to play Wes
It basically tells Davies we don't even rate you as backup.
So what would be the point in having him as backup.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

To be honest I think we’ll need 2 new keepers if we do manage to reach the promised land.